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Down with the Crims!
by Kate Davies
Returning home to study crime under Big Nana, Imogen Crim is pitted against a suspiciously perfect rival for top status at school at the same time the Crims suffer a spate of bad luck and family disappearances.
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Maddy Again
by Pamela Brown
With a starring role in a film and professional appearances with the Blue Door Theatre company already under her belt, Maddy Fayne sometimes finds life as a junior pupil at drama school a little dull. However, when a course in the exciting new medium of television is introduced into her timetable, Maddy soon discovers that she is a natural in front of the cameras.
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Gruesome Ghosts
by Barbara Mitchelhill
Damian Drooth, the one-of-a-kind detective hero, is back. Damian is fascinated when the new girl at school says that her grandparents' house is haunted. As the local specialist detective, it is up to Damian to solve the mystery! He agrees to spend a night in the house to see the ghostly figures for himself - but all is not what it seems . . .
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Ghosted
by Leslie Margolis
"Thirteen-year-old Ellie Charles has everything going for her: she's the smartest, prettiest, best-dressed, and most popular kid at Lincoln Heights Middle School. She's also the meanest, by design. But one night, hours before her school's winter dance, a frightening accident leads her to encounter a ghost who just might change everything. This ghost, of a girl dressed all in black, makes Ellie visit her own past, present, and future--reliving her parents' divorce, her struggles in school, and worst of all, her massive falling-out with her best friend, Marley. Can what Ellie sees inspire her to change her ways?
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A Dolphin Wish
by Natalie Grant
A stay in the city of San Diego seems like it might be just the break the girls need--lovely weather and great sights to see. That is until they hear some animals handlers at Captain Swashbuckler's Adventure Park talking about the trouble they've been having keeping all the animals in their habitats. Mia and her sisters cannot resist a challenge, and they talk Miss Julia and their parents into another visit to the educational amusement park to search for clues as to what or who is helping the animals escape. Can Mia save the day and help keep the beloved animals safe?
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Two's a Crowd
by Matthew Swanson
When Moxie McCoy's friend Emily receives a suspicious anonymous letter, Moxie and her little brother Milton investigate, but they must learn to get along together to solve the case.
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The Last One in the Universe
by Chrissie Perry
Hazel's friends are super cool, but she feels like a fraud. She doesn't have her period yet and she's never been kissed, and she's not confident or pretty like her friends are, either! So what should she do about her crush on Leo, who's sweet and funny but in the year above? Maybe it's time to take matters into her own hands.
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Lifeboat 12 : based on a true story
by Susan Hood
In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed.
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Once upon a dream : A Twisted Tale
by Liz Braswell
In an alternate take on the classic fairy tale, the prince falls asleep and Aurora must escape the magical world created in her own dreams.
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Starlight surprise
by Linda Chapman
Lauren does not believe in ghosts, but there is definitely something spooky going on down by the creek and one night, as Lauren and Twilight, her magical unicorn, fly over the woods near the scary tree house, they make a surprising discovery.
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Do you like ADVENTURE stories?........ |
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In the deep blue sea
by Bill Nye
Jack, his genius siblings, and inventor Hank Witherspoon go to Hawaii and help technology billionaire Ashley Hawking find out who is sabotaging her revolutionary electric plant that harvests energy from the deep ocean.
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Tilly and the book wanderers
by Anna James
Eleven year-old Tilly has lived above her grandparents' bookshop ever since her mother disappeared shortly after she was born. Like the rest of her family, Tilly loves nothing more than to escape into the pages of her favourite stories. One day Tilly realises that classic children's characters are appearing in the shop through the magic of `book wandering' - crossing over from the page into real life. With the help of Anne of Green Gables and Alice in Wonderland. Tilly is determined to solve the mystery of what happened to her mother all those years ago, so she bravely steps into the unknown, unsure of what adventure lies ahead and what dangers she may face.
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Twelve Nights
by Andrew Zurcher
: Kay and her little sister, Eloise, never imagined that their standard icy Christmas Eve in Cambridge would be the start of a twelve-night odyssey... Kay's father is working late - as usual. Fed up, her mother bundles her daughters into the car and drives to her husband's Cambridge college to collect him herself. But when they arrive, the staff claim that nobody by his name has ever worked there... Kay is puzzled by her mother's reaction - silent tears, not anger and confusion. And what is even more puzzling is the card on her pillow when they return home: Will O. de Wisp, Gent. F.H.S.P. and Phillip R. T. Gibbet, Gent. F.H.S.P. K.Bith. REMOVALS. That night, Kay is woken by voices at her window: the voices of Will and Phillip, the Removers. But they are not human. And Kay shouldn't be able to see them. Except she can...
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Born to be good
by Michael Fry
A highly anticipated follow-up to the best-selling How to Be a Supervillain finds a reluctant Junior Super Academy student, Victor, aspiring to quit and become a librarian before he is called upon to rescue superheroes and villains, including his parents, who have been abducted as part of an evil scheme involving gladiator fights to the death.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 8-11!
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